Norma Waterson
Martin Carthy
Mike Waterson

with guests
Lauren McCormick
Emily Portman and
Jim Causley

'There is a special magic when the clan pools its resources. The effect is sensational.' The Times

England's first family of unaccompanied song have a gift for harmonising that only blood ties can bring. Nobody sings hardcore traditional music with such attack, commitment or conviction.

Singing with a natural, passionate force that can hit the unwary like a bolt from the blue, they share the stage to perform sparse, traditional festive folk songs that seem to have been dug straight from the soil: earthy, mysterious, poetic, bleakly witty, subtly erotic, original and enduring.

'Beautifully played and sung ... proving that the English's weirdly masochistic attitude to Yuletide has deep historical roots.' The Guardian

'Great folk music [from] one of England's most adventurous musical families ... unaccompanied traditional songs with extraordinary passion.' The Guardian

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